Sizing your photos can be a bit frustrating and mysterious. You can't measure pixels with a ruler and the numbers are confusing. Here are a few tips to help you think about sizing.
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Cropping is an often overlooked, yet very simple part of editing photographs of your artist books. Here are a few tips for cropping that will help present and document your work most effectively.
Cropping is done using the Crop tool in Photoshop (or whatever photo imaging software you have).
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One very common problem with photos of artist books is that the book is crooked in the image frame. Here's how to make sure your books are on the straight and narrow.
GET STRAIGHTThe easiest way to straighten an image is with the crop tool.
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Preparing photos of your book art for submission to a juried show? This series covers five tips to make sure your books are shown to jurors in the very best light possible. This tip covers the number one most common problem with images submitted to our juried shows: strange color casts caused by common household tungsten light bulbs.
Tip # 1: Neutralize Your Colors
If you do only one thing to the photos of our books, do whatever you can to achieve a neutral “white balance.
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How to Shoot and Edit Photographs of Your Artist Book: Step-by-Step
Before Shooting: Set Up Your Photo Shoot
Shoot your photos indoors with a neutral gray or white background. Avoid black, wrinkled or patterned backgrounds. You can shoot outdoors, but only on cloudy days.
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Welcome to the new 23 Sandy Gallery blog. As you can see we have ported over all of the old posts from our previous blog site, including the very popular articles such as Photographing Your Artist Books and our listing of Book Arts Resources. Those articles will continue to be linked on the top right sidebar of our blog page.
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Hiring a Pro and Finding Community Resources
Here at 23 Sandy we are currently in the heat of Uncommon Threads, a national juried exhibition of artist books. Entries are rolling in and it looks to be a fantastic show.
One of the hardest parts about entering a juried show is providing good quality images of your books for submission.
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